Test flight of Gaganyaan Mission successful, Crew Escape capability tested
This was the first test flight of the Gaganyaan mission. After its successful test, India will join the list of countries which can launch their own crewed spacecraft. It is also being called Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 and Test Vehicle Development Flynt (TV-D1).
Overcoming all the challenges, the first test flight of the Gaganyaan mission has been launched. ISRO launched it at 10 am on October 21 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
This was the first test flight of the Gaganyaan mission. After its successful test, India will join the list of countries which can launch their own crewed spacecraft. It is also being called Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 and Test Vehicle Development Flynt (TV-D1).
This flight abort test was conducted to test the capability of the vehicle's crew escape system. It is used when the crew needs to evacuate in an emergency. The Gaganyaan mission aims to send humans to space in a 400 km low Earth orbit for a three-day mission and return them safely to Earth.
ISRO Chief S Somnath said that I am happy to inform that the TV-DV1 (crew module) mission has been successfully launched. He congratulated the entire ISRO team for this success.
The test vehicle had taken with itself the crew module built for the astronaut. According to the information, the rocket will go up sixteen and a half kilometers with the crew module and then it will be landed in the Bay of Bengal.
The test vehicle is a single-stage liquid rocket, designed for this aborted mission. The payload consists of the Crew Module (CM) and Crew Escape System (CES) with their fast-acting solid motors, CM Fairing (CMF) and interface adapters. This flight simulated aborted conditions during the ascent trajectory corresponding to the Mach number of 1.2 encountered in the Gaganyaan mission.
This program will make India the fourth country to launch a manned space flight mission after the US, Russia and China. Building on the success of Indian space initiatives including the recent Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L1 missions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed that India now aims to launch a mission to the Moon by 2035 and the first manned mission to the Moon by 2040, including setting up an 'Indian Space Station'. New and ambitious targets should be set for sending Indians.